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THE WEEKEND PLANET’ SUN 09.03.14

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THEME:details below, as per the original CD. This cut is also on these compilations:

Genial, unrushed version of a Morris dance tune from southern England.

Will’s phrasing is just uncanny; the end result is easeful…but not easily achieved!

SEGUE

2220CD CUT 7, 'IN THE PINES'TRAD, ARR MARTIN SIMPSON SONG IS PUBLIC DOMAIN. ARR IS TOPIC RECORDS LTD TOPIC TSCD584 In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM email: info@theplanetcompany.comwebsite: www.theplanetcompany.comworldwide: www.topicrecords.co.ukMARTIN SIMPSON - 'PURPOSE + GRACE'5: 59 Suitably eerie 2011version of a very old song. It was around long before Leadbelly delivered the most famous version.

2230CD CUT 13, ‘BILOXIJESSE WINCHESTERFOURTH FLOOR MUSIC/ WB MUSIC CORP (ASCAP)BLUE NOTE BOO1951202n.b. this is the album’s deluxe version, with book; this is one of three bonus cuts which are exclusive to the deluxe editionIn Australia through UniversalROSANNE CASH – ‘THE RIVER & THE THREAD’3: 21Yearning-filled, dream-like evocation of childhood days on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi – aka ‘the redneck riviera’.

When Jesse Winchester wrote this song he was in Canada.

As a so-called ‘draft dodger’ he then expected he would never again see Biloxi – or any other of his beloved places in the ‘Deep South’ of the USA.

The author’s 1970 original is on his eponymous debut LP, since re-issued on CD.

On Rosanne Cash’s 21st century version her voice is surrounded by her husband John Leventhal’s various guitars, drums and keys, plus Rick Depofi’s baritone sax.

Julien Wilson’s concurrent release has a different but equally good version of this piece…which you can hear in the second hour of this Weekend Planet.

2240CD CUT 11, ‘MONEY ROAD’ROSANNE CASH AND JOHN LEVENTHALCHELCAIT MUSIC, ADMIN BY MEASURABLE MUSIC LLC, A NOTABLE MUSIC CO (BMI)/ LEV-A-TUNES (ASCAP)BLUE NOTE BOO1951202n.b. this is the album’s deluxe version, with book.This song is included in all versions.In Australia through UniversalROSANNE CASH – ‘THE RIVER & THE THREAD’3: 56Very haunting ode to the ‘Deep South’ of the USA; its ‘Money Road’ is a real one, just north of Greenwood, Mississippi.

That road leads to what is probably the ‘real’ grave of bluesman Robert Johnson, who was 27 when he died. He may or may not have been murdered.

This song is informed by the troubled/contested history of this particular location – and of the ‘Deep South’, more generally.

It all happened this way: we drove down Money Road and stopped at Robert Johnson’s grave. We went on to the spot where the murder of the young Emmett Till took place, which led to the birth of the Civil Rights movement. Around the corner was the Tallahatchie Bridge and we were in a vortex of music, tragedy and revolution. That kind of thing stays with you forever. You can leave, but you can’t go away.